Quote - Ravyns yes I have tried wings. Look at my gallery to see. It also has a lot of limitation. I need something more roboost that doesn't cost over a thousand dollars.

With respect to modeling on the mac, I've tried Silo 3D, Wings 3D, Cheetah 3D, Google Sketchup, Modo, Hexagon and Blender.  My favorite of all these was Silo3D, and that's what I've been using.  It felt extremely intuitive and easy to use.  I prefer having keyboard shortcuts for almost everything since it really speeds up the creative process and Silo (along with several if not most of the others) allows me to configure my own preferred setup.  It occasionally has stability issues, but I'm pretty careful when it comes to making copies and backups so it hasn't been a problem.  Please be aware Silo has no internal renderer.

Vue and Bryce aren't modeling programs, so it's better to have the right tool, a modeling program, for the job.  It's cool that people are able to psuedo-model some amazingly creative stuff with terrains, but Vue and Bryce are landscape/environment generating programs by nature.

It's interesting to hear someone mention their kickass machine was unable to run Vue; I've had all sorts of speed and stability issues with Vue in the past and basically stopped at Vue 7 Infinite.  Sad, too, because its renders look incredibly good.

It sucks that Bryce 7 won't run on Lion but that is one of the drawbacks of moving to a new OS.  One of my favorite music plugins didn't make the jump from PPC to Intel and I was extremely disappointed.  I had to find a substitute for that plugin and once I did, my frustration and disappointment (slowly) faded away.  That's progress for you.

LH